Jailed for rejecting Assad’s orders during Hama’s massacre, Al-Tatari's release after 43 years marks the resilience of human ...

Moral evangelists in power preaching about democracy and human rights resemble dowdy advocates of family values .

The massacre earned Rifaat the nickname the “Butcher of Hama” and he is the brother of Assad’s father, former president Hafez al-Assad. He is the brother of Assad’s father, former ...

His part in the notorious February 1982 massacre in the western city of Hama, in which between 10,000 and 40,000 people were killed, earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Hama". Rifaat al-Assad ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of Bashar al-Assad and key figure in a notorious crackdown during Syria's 1982 Hama uprising, faces legal challenges in Switzerland for war crimes. His recent travel from ...

A Lebanese security source said Saturday that Bashar al-Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, left the country via Beirut airport around a week ago, after rebels overthrew his nephew. Rifaat al-Assad ...

Estimates for the number of people killed during the 1982 military offensive range ... they understood that Hama was a byword for massacre, and a warning that death or imprisonment were the ...

launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre. Between 10,000 to 40,000 people were killed or disappeared in the government attack on the central Syrian city. It began on Feb. 2, 1982 ...

Suweiha takes us through ten tumultuous days that began with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham entering Aleppo.

Lujain Bassam al-Jammal, whose family suffered personal losses during the 1982 Hama massacre, attended with a photo of her uncle, Omar Mohammed Tahir Dagestani, who was among the victims.

The Attorney General's office said in March that Rifaat al-Assad had been charged with "ordering homicides, acts of torture, cruel treatments and illegal detentions" in February 1982 when he was in ...

Rifaat gained the nickname "butcher of Hama" by a US journalist following the 1982 Hama massacre which saw a reported 10,000 to 40,000 people killed. Credit: ITN The uncle of Syria's former ...